Word: freedom
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...said. He characterized serial fiction in particular as a type of contract between writer and reader in which the reader agrees to keep reading as long as the writer produces satisfying work. McCall Smith said that he accepts this obligation. “It considerably constricts my freedom of action, but in a way that I don’t regret,” he said. Several audience members said that they enjoyed McCall-Smith’s musings. “I found him hilarious and captivating,” said attendee Anne Banhill...
...movement in Beijing - they, too, published their work here in Hong Kong. "Isn't it an irony that the party members have to run here, a capitalist city, to publish their thoughts?" Meng Lang, the new book's Hong Kong publisher, asked with a smile. "I have lots of freedom here in Hong Kong. If it can be kept, it can be developed and exported to the mainland." (Read TIME's cover story about life in 1989 China after the crackdown...
...Green pointed out in a Washington Post editorial, “The condom has long been a symbol of freedom and—along with contraception—female emancipation.” As such, many who promote the use of condoms to stem the African AIDS crisis do so not for their efficacy as much as on principle...
...that those who would arraign the Pope for callous disregard for reality are in fact the ones moralizing in ignorance of the data. Except that they have abandoned a traditional regard for moral virtue and absolute truth in favor of a vain and vacuous worship of freedom...
...ironic that at one point, Tania R. James ’03 dismissed writing as a viable career option. Even from a very early age, James was drawn to writing. “I guess I was always writing, you know, in the way little kids do, with complete freedom and deep seriousness,” said James. Although she continued writing in high school, James encountered opposition from her parents when she began to consider it as a career. Her mother dismissed writing as an “unstable profession.” “I kind...